Introduction: terminology - state of research - historical context

Abstract

The introduction addresses the issue of ruralist and frontier literature in the diversity of understanding and developments in Central Europe. It summarises the results of the research until the present and explains the socio-cultural conditionality of the interpretation of these concepts in different environments.

Keywords

• ruralist literature
• frontier literature
• national emancipation and confrontation
• agrarism
• ruralism
• national socialism
• historical source